Illinois State University Leadership

Bridgette Orzech is a Chief Campus Editor at Illinois State University and is based in Illinois State University.

Charley is a proven leader and is skilled at consensus building and crisis management, with an established history of turning around failing implementations and small teams, building up to large scale IT transformation. He is adept at ensuring the lights stay on while planning the needed restructuring, resulting in revitalized teams and projects. He believes that IT organizations must focus on empowered employees and digital transformation to bring value to the rest of the organization, and he is constantly optimizing IT’s role in the organization and the community.

A sense of urgency, a strong technical background with strategic management skills, and a drive for operational excellence have been instrumental in Charley’s ability to effect digital transformation and realize institutional success in record time. A large part of this is due to his ability to create leaders and effective leadership teams. Charley is passionate about student and faculty success, especially as it relates to preparing generations of the country’s workforce.

Charley brought this experience to play immediately when he was hired at Illinois State University as its highest-ranking IT officer and turned around the central IT organization’s reputation and morale. He has since championed various initiatives resulting, for example, in the implementation of a world-class Admissions CRM and the promotion of predictive data models.

Charley works with members of the university cabinet to understand the university’s goals and to craft a technology response; he is in his element translating institutional goals into highly technical designs.

In addition to operational excellence and the promotion of agile and DevOps techniques, he is working on town/county partnerships, to provide smart city digital initiatives with data collection and analytics support. He is also planning for 5G networks and blended networks. As data evangelist, Charley is promoting data sharing, analytics, and machine learning.

Marleta Jones is a Chief Clerk Retired Career Center at Illinois State University and is based in Normal Il Area.

Nadine Treadway is a Chief Clerk at Illinois State University and is based in Normal, Illinois.

Susan Blystone is an Editor-In-Chief,

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